Year Author Title Result Ref. 1991 David Wong Louie Pangs of Love Winner [ 2] 1992 Darryl Pinckney High Cotton Winner [ 3] 1993 Paul Kafka Love Winner [ 4] 1994 Martin M. Šimecka The Year of the Frog Winner [ 5] 1995 Mark Merlis American Studies Winner [ 6] 1996 Mark Behr The Smell of Apples Winner [ 7] 1997 Carolyn Ferrell Don't Erase Me: Stories Winner [ 8] 1998 C. S. Godshalk Kalimantaan Winner [ 9] 1999 Elizabeth Strout Amy and Isabelle Winner [ 9] Galaxy Craze By the Shore Finalist Nathan Englander For the Relief of Unbearable Urges 2000 Pankaj Mishra The Romantics Winner [ 9] 2001 Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room Winner [ 9] Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu Finalist [ 10] 2002 Arthur Phillips Prague Winner [ 9] 2003 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Winner [ 11] 2004 Lorraine Adams Harbor Winner [ 12] Peter Duval Rear View Finalist [ 12] 2005 Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation Winner [ 13] Kirstin Allio Garner Finalist [ 14] 2006 Alice Greenway White Ghost Girls Winner [ 15] [ 16] Jennifer Gilmore Golden Country Finalist [ 17] Lisa Fugard Skinner’s Drift 2007 Dinaw Mengestu The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Winner [ 18] Ellen Litman The Last Chicken in America Finalist [ 18] Rebecca Curtis Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money 2008 Zoë Ferraris Finding Nouf Winner [ 19] [ 20] Roma Tearne Mosquito Finalist [ 21] David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle 2009 Philipp Meyer American Rust Winner [ 22] Daniyal Mueenuddin In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Finalist [ 23] Paul Harding Tinkers 2010 Peter Bognanni The House of Tomorrow Winner [ 24] Christine Sneed Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry Finalist [ 25] Michael Sledge The More I Owe You 2011 Ismet Prcic Shards Winner [ 26] Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station Finalist [ 27] Eleanor Henderson Ten Thousand Saints James Wallenstein The Arriviste 2012 Maggie Shipstead Seating Arrangements Winner [ 28] [ 29] David Abrams Fobbit Finalist [ 30] 2013 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names Winner [ 28] [ 29] Jamie Quatro I Want To Show You More Finalist [ 31] Jeff Jackson Mira Corpora Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest Ethan Rutherford The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories 2014 Valeria Luiselli Christina MacSweeney Faces in the Crowd Winner [ 32] [ 33] Eimear McBride A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Finalist [ 34] Valeria Luiselli Faces in the Crowd Diane Cook Man V. Nature: Stories David James Poissant The Heaven of Animals: Stories John Darnielle Wolf in White Van [ 34] [ 35] 2015 Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen Winner [ 36] 2016 Nathan Hill The Nix Winner [ 37] 2017 Jenny Zhang Sour Heart Winner [ 38] Rachel Khong Goodbye, Vitamin Finalist [ 39] [ 40] Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Gabriel Tallent My Absolute Darling [ 40] Elif Batuman The Idiot 2018 Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People Winner [ 41] Lisa Halliday Asymmetry Finalist [ 42] Katya Apekina The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish R. O. Kwon The Incendiaries Tommy Orange There There 2019 Namwali Serpell The Old Drift Winner [ 43] [ 44] De’Shawn Charles Winslow In West Mills Finalist [ 45] Sarah Elaine Smith Marilou Is Everywhere Maria Gainza Optic Nerve Lila Savage Say Say Say 2020 Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Winner [ 46] [ 47] Shruti Swamy A House is a Body: Stories Finalist [ 48] Meng Jin Little Gods Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Maisy Card These Ghosts Are Family 2021 Jackie Polzin Brood Winner [ 49] Natasha Brown Assembly Finalist [ 50] Thomas Grattan The Recent East Jocelyn Nicole Johnson My Monticello: Fiction Benjamín Labatut When We Cease to Understand the World 2022 Aamina Ahmad The Return of Faraz Ali: a novel Winner [ 51] Maayan Eitan Love Finalist [ 52] Sidik Fofana Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Oscar Hokeah Calling for a Blanket Dance Morgan Thomas Manywhere: Stories 2023 Shannon Sanders Company: Stories Winner [ 53] Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A Novel Finalist [ 54] Sheena Patel I'm a Fan: A Novel James Frankie Thomas Idlewild: A Novel Ghassan Zeineddine Dearborn 2024 Jiaming Tang Cinema Love Winner [ 55] Pemi Aguda Ghostroots: Stories Finalist Joseph Earl Thomas God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer Jessica Elisheva Emerson Olive Days Julian Zabalbeascoa What We Tried to Bury Grows Here